From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Grub installation guide: [was Re: Install from FreeBSD] Date: 03 Feb 2000 11:01:20 +0200
> Well, not even GRUB 0.5.93.1 can get past the 1024-cylinder > barrier on this machine. Neil Turton's mbr-1.1.0 didn't run > properly either. It turned out that the BIOS supports the INT > 0x13, AH=0x41, BX=0x55AA call (properly setting BX=0xAA55) but > the bitmap returned in CL has 0 in the lowest bit. mbr-1.1.0 > didn't check that and then failed to chainload. Then, try the current. It should work in LBA mode even for your buggy BIOS. > Also, a separate partition can be mounted read-only most of the > time. :-) I see. Probably that is the only advantage. :p ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ^o-o^ http://duff.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~okuji (in English) m /